Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow

Re:Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow by paulnelligan on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @02:31PM (#2921947)

I'm not sure I like the way that my personal and professional life are suddenly becoming intertwined ... I want a few online identities dammit, not one!

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Re:Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow by JeremyBanks on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @02:47PM (#2922019)

Did you RTFA?

This is just providing a view of Stack Overflow that's limited to Facebook questions, and Facebook staff providing more support there. Facebook has been a login option for Stack Overflow for a long time, but don't even require you to even make an account to ask questions.

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Re:Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow by DrCatbox on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @02:41PM (#2921999)

Im sure I dont want that.

Does this mean stackoverflow will share their user data with facebook? If so, thats a disaster.

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Re:Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow by JeremyBanks on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @02:49PM (#2922020)

Of course it doesn't mean that, but even if it did, what user data are you talking about? The only non-public info that Stack Overflow has from (some) users is their email address and real name, which Facebook already knows.

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Re:Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow by true_religion on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @03:04PM (#2922076)

But facebook can't associate Real Names with questions asked on stackoverflow.

If they had data-sharing in place, they could.

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Re:Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow by svnk on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @05:54PM (#2922622)

Oh my god, Facebook will know that you asked a question on how to write Hello World in lisp!

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